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Transport Priorities
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Transport priority planning is a feature for users to specify strong preferences for which transport should be planned if not all transports can be served by the fleet. By providing transport priorities the user can specify which transport is more …
Trip Sections and Position in Trips
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Trip section numbers and positions in trips are tools for the user to specify positions of stops at customer locations within a trip. … Scenarios trip sections Which scenarios can be modelled by trip section numbers? Some customers are promised to be …
Mixed Loading Prohibition
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A mixed loading prohibition is a constraint that prevents certain transports from being mixed with some other vehicles on the same trip. It may be prohibited to load certain dangerous goods together on the same trip, such as flammable solids on the one …
Capacities and Alternative Capacities
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Vehicles carry load, and that load is measured in various dimensions (think of weight, ground area, height, volume, count, and many more). The capacities of a vehicle is the maximum that can be transported by the vehicle in all these dimensions. However, …
Drivers' Working Hours (Break and Rest Rules)
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The drivers' working hours are a set of regulations that define break times and driving/travel time limits for vehicle drivers. The purpose of drivers' working hours regulations is to improve road safety and ensure good working conditions for drivers. To …
Service Times
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All vehicles have a service time for the pickup and delivery task. Each task is different: Large or heavy items may require a longer time to load and unload. Transports that require extensive load securing will also take longer to execute. Also, the …
Route Structure Control
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The Route Optimisation service provides two main fields that allow a user to control the structure of the resulting routes for given input data. The two fields are part of the restrictions: singleTripPerRoute Determines whether vehicles are allowed to …
Routes and Trips
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The Route Optimisation service allows you to create routes to execute a set of vehicles. These created routes respect pre-existing boundary conditions. Those boundary conditions incorporate a limited number of vehicles with a given capacity, restricted …
Optimisation Premium
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Optimisation Premium is a feature that can be used in the start optimization endpoint in addition to the quality field, to boost the quality of results by increasing the computational resources allocated to the request. The higher computational capacity …
Objective of Optimisation
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The Route Optimisation service aims at finding a good plan for the given transport. In order to determine what "good" means here, two questions need to be answered: What makes one plan better than another? How much effort should be put into finding a …
Locations, Transport and Stops
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With the Route Optimisation service, you use locations with exact map coordinates that are either meant for carrying out a transport (pickup and delivery of transport goods) or for locating vehicles. Pickups and/or deliveries that are carried out at the …
Relevant Terms
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The following terms are important to understand the whole use case. Vehicle location Geographical location where the used vehicle is located at the beginning of the route or must be located at the end of the route. Customer location, Depot location …
Places by Text
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Allows searching for places (i.e. addresses of businesses and services) matching a name given by a single text field. … Input The places by text endpoint considers the following input fields: Input Field Description searchText (required) A free-form text …
Time-Dependent Matrix
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Matrices are often calculated based on an average traffic situation. But, with the following options, it is possible to get more precise values: trafficMode startTime duration The following usecase are handled, depending on the combination of these …
Traffic Modes
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In case of time-dependent matrix, the calculation can take different data into account. This is selected by the options[trafficMode] and the options[startTime] . By default, when none of these parameters are specified, the Matrix Routing API will …
Travel Time Profiles
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Travel Time Profiles | Matrix Routing API Documentation | PTV Developer POST Profile No value No Value EUR_TRAILER_TRUCK EUR_TRUCK_40T EUR_TRUCK_11_99T EUR_TRUCK_7_49T EUR_VAN EUR_CAR EUR_TLN_TRUCK_40T EUR_TLN_TRUCK_20T EUR_TLN_TRUCK_11_99T EUR_TLN_VAN …
Traffic Modes
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Traffic Modes | Matrix Routing API Documentation | PTV Developer POST Profile No value No Value EUR_TRAILER_TRUCK EUR_TRUCK_40T EUR_TRUCK_11_99T EUR_TRUCK_7_49T EUR_VAN EUR_CAR EUR_TLN_TRUCK_40T EUR_TLN_TRUCK_20T EUR_TLN_TRUCK_11_99T EUR_TLN_VAN …
Results Representation
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The response of a Matrix Routing request is composed of arrays and other information. Depending on what has been set in the options , plain arrays or encoded string are returned. The following sections explain how to interprete these results. … Plain …
Scores
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The scores describe how well a result location and the request match. They can be used to determine whether a result is good enough to automatically accept it, e.g. in batch processing. … The scores are part of the quality element of a resulting location. …
Service Times and Opening Intervals
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Service Times and Opening Intervals | Routing API Documentation | PTV Developer POST Waypoint A Latitude A Longitude A Waypoint B All attributes will be applied to waypoint B. The Opening Interval will applied for the next three days Latitude B …
Which Endpoints Are in the Geocoding OSM API and Which One Should I Use?
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The Geocoding OSM API Offers the Following Services: Find places matching an address to get their geographic positions, with a single address string ( Places by Text ). with separate input strings for each address field ( Places by Address ). Find places …
Language of the response (OSM)
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If you specify the languages query parameter in the request, then the names of e.g. places, countries, cities, streets... will be returned in one of the specified languages, if available in the data. While country and city names are available in many …
Results Representation (OSM)
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The response of a Matrix Routing request is composed of arrays and other information. … Response arrays Depending on the results parameter, the response contains one or several one-dimensional arrays. For each combination, origins (i) and destinations (j) …
Waypoints (OSM)
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The Routing OSM API supports different waypoint types and attributes in order to support different use cases. … Waypoint Types By choosing the appropriate waypoint type the route will actually reach the location off the road, stop on the road close to the …
Creating a Map App
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The PTV Developer Vector Maps API allows you to render geographical vector tiles on a map view in a browser window. Showing a map in a web browser In this tutorial, we describe how to create a simple web application that shows a map based on vector …